| Daily News Summaries | ||||
 | ||||
 |
This page gives you access to all of RBA's daily news summaries (since April 13, 2006), 10 days at a time. The most recent are shown, or you can select a specific date to show (along with the previous 10 days). Prior to April 13, 2006 you can find weekly reviews, located in articles. | |||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||||
| Switch to summary view | ||||
|
||||
| << Newer | Back to the most recent | Older>> | ||
|
||||
|
|
|
| Saturday 12th October 2013 | ||
|
||
| An exceptional autumn day produced the highest number of messages ever, with 721 sent. Despite there being no outstanding mega rarities, good
numbers of the regular rarities were found. Bird of the day probably goes to the
Paddyfield Warbler on Unst, Shetland, with a Siberian Stonechat
nearby on Bressay and an Olive-backed Pipit and Little Bunting on
Fair Isle. Further Olive-backed Pipits were at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
and Holland Haven Country Park, Essex, while Red-throated Pipits were
recorded at Spurn, Yorkshire, Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire and Mizen Head,
County Cork, and a Tawny Pipit flew over Porthgwarra, Cornwall. A
Radde's Warbler was at Brighton, Sussex, and Dusky Warblers were at
West Runton, Norfolk, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire and Flamborough Head, Yorkshire,
with single Little Buntings at Grimston and Easington, Yorkshire, Farne
Islands, Northumberland and Seaham, County Durham. A male Red-footed Falcon
flew north over Bawdsey and Shingle Street, Suffolk, a Glossy Ibis was at
Stanwick GPs, Northamptonshire and an Azorean Yellow-legged Gull roosted
at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire.
Lingering rarity highlights included the Sora and Grey-cheeked Thrush on the Isles of Scilly, Pechora Pipit, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Isabelline Shrike, Wilson's Phalarope, Western Bonelli's Warbler and Black-bellied Dipper on Shetland, Sardinian Warbler in Borders, Long-billed Dowitchers in Hampshire and Glamorgan, Lesser Yellowlegs in Kent, Rustic Bunting in Yorkshire, Red-breasted Goose in Hampshire and four Two-barred Crossbills in Norfolk. Scarcity totals included 34 Great Grey Shrikes, 11 Pallas's Warblers, 88 Yellow-browed Warblers, ten Richard's Pipits, eight Red-breasted Flycatchers, five Short-toed Larks, two Common Rosefinches, a Hoopoe and a Bluethroat. Four Parrot Crossbills were at Gunners Park, Essex. Triple figure counts of Ring Ouzels today came from the south coast, with 390 at Beachy Head, 205 at Hastings Country Park, 162 at Crowlink and 150 at Seaford Head, all Sussex, and 100 at Dungeness, Kent. |
||
| - Will Soar, RBA | ||
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
| << Newer | Back to the most recent | Older>> | ||
|
| ||||
| ||||
| All weather charts on this page are Crown Copyright of the Met Office and are reproduced here with their permission. If you wish to reproduce any of these charts yourself, you must seek prior approval from the Met Office |
||||
|
||||